£800m roads framework goes to market

A group of native authorities is looking for contractors for £800m of roads-linked construction work.

Central Bedfordshire Council published a proper procurement leer for the Jap Highways Alliance Framework 4.

The deal will duvet structural, surfacing, road and capital projects all the plot thru 11 native authority areas.

Work going thru the framework is expected to embody highways, bridges and subways alongside public realm enhancements, rupture administration products and companies and assorted linked jobs.

Canal works, culverts and retaining walls could well well additionally be procured thru the deal.

Lot one will duvet individual schemes worth up to £5m, lot two from £5m to £30m and lot three will kind out elevated projects.

Work will take feature all the plot thru a swathe of the nation, at the side of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent.

Duties are liable to embody surveying, planning, civil engineering, construction, commercial products and companies and asset administration. Laboratory and construction-materials sorting out capabilities could well effectively be required, as could well well environmental, ecological and panorama products and companies.

Parties in the four-year framework include except noon on 5 August to throw their hat in the ring.

Candidates can compete for all three plenty, and bids shall be judged 60 per cent on quality and 40 per cent on ticket.

Galliford Strive to Colas were amongst 15 contractors selected for £300m of road surfacing work in Yorkshire final month.

Meanwhile, Norfolk County Council in March made contractors mindful of a drawing shut £500m highways contract. Procurement became as soon as expected to originate up in December, according to a prior knowledge leer, with the contract coming into power in April 2026 and potentially lasting for an preliminary 12 years, despite the indisputable fact that that had no longer been finalised.